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The Best iPad Apps for Education

Joan Greene-FisherEducation Specialist

Technology InitiativesState Department of Education

Stack the States

• Stack the States: $.99

• Have fun learning about the 50 states:▸ Capitals▸ State shapes▸ Abbreviations▸ Bordering states▸ Location on the map▸ Nicknames

• Stack the Countries (also available)

Star Walk

• Star Walk: $4.99

• Point your iPad at the sky and learn the identities of the stars, constellations and satellites.

Everyday Mathematics Baseball

Mathematics Baseball: $1.99

Designed for both iPhone, iPad, and iTouch

Great practice for Multiplication tables in a game form.

Beat the Computer

• Everyday Mathmatics- Beat the Computer: $1.99

• 20 rounds of play

• Practices basic multiplication facts from 0 to 10

• Correct and incorrect answer feedback

Mad Libs

• Mad Libs: FREE

• Test your fill-in the-blank skills

• Educate and entertain simultaneously

Under the Sea

• Under the Sea: FREE (Expanded paid version available.)

• Designed for 1st-2nd grade

• Learn simple addition facts in game form.

Pearl Diver

• Pearl Diver: FREE

• Ideal for middle school and upper elementary students, grades 3-8

• Understand numbers, ways of representing numbers, and number systems.

•Understand and represent commonly used fractions.

K-12 Timed Reading

• K-12 Timed Reading: FREE

• Allows levels K-4 to practice fluency.

• Variety of fiction and non-fiction.

• Track one reader, multiple readers, or even a whole class.

Geo Play 2

• Geo Play 2: FREE

• Fun geography review and quiz.

• Play as a multiple choice game, or just review geography facts with flash cards.

• Over 80 questions or upgrade to over 400 questions.

Free Spanish Tutor

• Free Spanish Tutor: FREE

• Native speaker audio for all words 

• Entertaining puzzle game

• Write-in quiz to test language recall

• Multiple choice quiz

• Flash cards built in

• Self contained, internet not required

Grammar Prep: Subjects & Verbs

• Grammar Prep: $3.99

• Contains multimedia tutorials, quizzes and mastery tests, answer feedback, and progress tracking.

Teacher’s Assistant Pro

• Teacher’s Assistant Pro: FREE (Upgrade version - $6.99)

• Allows teachers to keep track of student actions, behavior, infractions, and achievements in the classroom.

• Communicate quickly and easily with parents and your administration by documenting student classroom habits and behaviors and sending reports via email or making a call right from your iPhone.

Easy QR

• Easy QR: FREE

• Allows you to generate and scan QR code.

• Share via e-mail, Facebook, or Twitter.

Puffin

• Puffin: $2.99

• Super fast web browser that renders full versions of web pages and supports FLASH!

Khan Academy

• Khan Academy: FREE

• Learn almost anything free with over 2,700 videos.

• Topics such as K-12 math, science, biology, chemistry, history, etc. are covered.

• Downloadable videos.

Instapaper

• Instapaper ($4.99)

• Lets you save articles, blogs and news for offline reading.

• The app turns Web pages into a great reading experience.

Paper

• Paper: FREE

• Use different pen types and colors to:

• Sketch

• Write

• Outline

• Color

• Share

Penultimate

• Penultimate: $.99

• Write directly on the iPad to take notes.

• Various color “pens”.

• Import pictures onto notepaper.

• Save for future reference.

Three Ring

• Three Ring: FREE

• Allows teachers to take pictures of student work and keep track of them online.

• Digitize students’ handwritten assignments and organize their work.

Dropbox

• Dropbox: FREE up to 2GB

• Lets you bring your photos, docs, and videos anywhere and share them easily.

• Never email yourself a file again! Offers offline file access.

Documents to Go• Documents to

Go: $9.99

• Have access to your Office documents (Word, Excel and PowerPoint) on your iPad at any time.

• Provides a 2-way file synchronization between your desktop and your iPad (or iPhone).

Adobe Photoshop Express

• Photoshop Express: FREE

• Simple photo editing.

• Crop and rotate photos, create effects and borders, manipulate color, apply filters, etc.

Dragon Dictation

Dragon Dictation: FREE

Very accurate voice transcription

Share messages via e-mail, Facebook and Twitter as long as you are connected to the web.

Explain Everything• Explain Everything:

$2.99

• Easy-to-use design tool that lets you annotate, animate, and narrate presentations.

• Use as an interactive whiteboard using the iPad2 video display.

• Insert a web browser for live annotations and basic recordings.

• Record on-screen while the audio is captured on the iPad microphone.

Popplet

• Popplet: FREE (only allows 1) Paid version unlimited: $4.99

• For brainstorming and mindmapping

• Plan projects, presentations, projects, etc.

• Share and collaborate with others.

Type on PDF

• Type on PDF: FREE

• Users can both type or write on PDF forms.

• Export completed forms as PDFs via email.

• Make templates of commonly used forms.

Additional Sources

• AppShopper - notifies you of sale prices on iPad/iPhone apps

• AppStart - free review tool for iPad app

• Apps for Children with Special Needs: http://a4cwsn.com/

• ScoopIt - http://bit.ly/pu9wiF

• Apps in Education - http://appsineducation.blogspot.com/

• App Advice - http://appadvice.com/reviews